Transgressive Theatre-Opera will continue their season with a transgressive twist on Rossini’s comic masterpiece, The Count Ory.While The Count Ory is considered a comic opera, Rossini’s writing stretches the boundaries of the opéra comique genre with its sung dialogue and musical forms considered inappropriately loquacious at its premiere. Transgressive Theatre-Opera’s new English translation, transporting the story to a more contemporary time and a new location, turns the recitatives into sparkling dialogue, and adds a secondary love-couple, a format that would have excited Rossini’s first audience, and will do the same for ours!

The Count Orywill also play in the auditorium space of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, on March 22 and 23, 2019.